Chapter VI · The Drinking: One-page summary — Those who cultivate tea may grow several hundred clumps; the…

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The passage

“Those who cultivate tea may grow several hundred clumps; the tree like gualu, leaves like gardenia, flowers like white rose, fruit like palm.”

One-page summary

One sentence: “Those who cultivate tea may grow several hundred clumps; the tree like gualu, leaves like gardenia, flowers like white rose, fruit like palm.”

Three words: Those who cultivate tea may grow several hundred clumps; the…; Chapter VI · The Drinking; disciplined practice.

One action: next time you drink tea, ask about origin, harvest, and making before you ask about fame or price.

Reading note

Read the passage once for the image, once for the judgment, and once for the practice it implies.

Practice

• Name one thing the passage asks you to notice.
• Compare it with a tea you know.
• Keep the question open.